Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

I am so very excited to bring in my conversation this week with one of the biggest stars in all of music right now.

She is Country Music Sensation

Lainey Wilson. Lainey Wilson right now is your Country Music Association entertainer of the

year. She's won all kinds of female artist of the year, Entertainer of the Year award. She just

won the Grammy Award this year for Best Country Album. She is absolutely on

fire, and it comes after a long climb to get there. The 32-year-old who comes from a tiny

farming town in Baskin, Louisiana, it's called, population around 200, might be a little more,

might be a little less, grew up with her sister and her parents

on the farm, her dad, it's an honest to goodness farmer. She rode horses and helped on the farm,

her mother, a schoolteacher, and she had a dream from the time she was a little girl five years old,

then going to Nashville at nine years old and deciding she was going to end up there someday.

Graduated high school, moved to Nashville at 19, where she lived in a trailer on property owned by a family

friend who just kind of took her under his wing. He was a producer, kind of showed her around

Nashville a little bit, but it took her a long time, as you'll hear, and a lot of

rejection, more than a decade before she started to make it. She got her first number one song in

2021, almost to the day, 10 years after she arrived in Nashville. So they call it a 10-year town

that proved to be true for her. Might know some of her songs, Heart Like a Truck is a big one.

Her album, Bell Bottom Country is the one that has garnered all these awards, all the success,

and now in August coming out with a new album called Whirlwind, which is appropriate because

she has been in the middle of one for the last couple of years.

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